April 23, 2003
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LOTSA LINKS
SAQ Japan – Everything you wanted to know about Japan but were afraid to ask. The Ethnicity of Jesus - funny.
Flash Tips from my recently received Flashkit email newsletter:
GMF Tips n Tricks - The information on this website pertains mostly to Flash v 5. and for creating web-friendly animation and graphics. Becasue I sometimes use jpegs in Flash – finding these to be smaller in size than the original vector artwork, I found this article useful:
Improving bitmap image quality in Flash
There are a few things that can be done to improve the image quality of bitmaps before and after importing them to Flash.
To improve bitmap quality in Flash: Don’t scale imported bitmaps within Flash, which can greatly reduce image quality in published SWFs. Rather, use an external image editor such as Macromedia Fireworks to scale the image to the desired pixel dimensions before import.
After importing the image into Flash, break it apart and convert it to a graphic symbol. To do this, first select the image and choose Modify > Break Apart. Then, with the image still selected, choose Insert > Convert to Symbol and select the Graphic option for the behavior.
In the HTML tab of the Publish Settings (File menu > Publish Settings > HTML tab) set the Quality to Best.Disable the Allow Smoothing option for the bitmap. In the Library window, right-click (Windows) or control-click (Macintosh) on the bitmap and select Properties.
Un-check Allow smoothing in the Properties dialog and click OK.
Use lossless compression for the bitmap. In the Library window, right-click (Windows) or control-click (Macintosh) on the bitmap and select Properties. Choose Lossless from the Compression pop-up menu and click OK. This will cause Flash to render the image at the original imported quality and will probably cause the SWF file size to increase considerably.
Arthur Filloy has a new website: www.hellyeahdesign.com
I had the pleasure of working with Arthur a couple of years ago at Film Graphics Animation, on Lucky Lydia (pilot for Cartoon Network).
Personally, I think Arthur is one of THE BEST Animation Directors and Character Designers in the Australian animation industry. Thanks to Arthur, I got my first PAID animation gig in the industry.
Canadian Lucha! A big thanks to Cam for this link – www.luchacanada.com ”…the Canadian hub of Mexican Lucha Libre culture.”
The website owners are : Buddy Lee Roth who wears glasses with his mask on! (too funny) and El Macho! Jorge and Sandra, are you reading this?
